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Hi, I’m Miriam. I am so excited to have joined the Bear Creek Church staff! Everyone has been so welcoming, and I am thrilled to get to work with and learn from such talented people. God is using Bear Creek Church in such incredible ways in this community, and I am honored to get to be...

I am sort of weary. Watching the events unfold in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend made me so sad, again. It’s not a sadness born out of a certain political view. As your pastor, I’m firmly committed to not convoluting the gospel with political opinion.
Racial hatred...

"Preschool ministry is extremely important. Should we fail our young children, the church will suffer and so will we."
My name is Dave Meeler and while I’m no expert, I simply hope to share what I have learned regarding ministry in the past 29 years.
My wife Gloria and I have been...

I was born with a mole on my left cheek, commonly referred to as a “beauty mark.” Once I hit my teenage years I had made it a point to get that mole removed. I had forgotten all about that beauty mark until last week in my quiet time when these words came...

During Vacation Bible School, one of our leaders decided to literally make his students “Jesus seekers.” He asked one of us as staff to hide a plastic Jesus figurine somewhere in the building so his class of 6 and 7 year-olds could seek and find Jesus each day.
When it was my turn...

Anyone who has spent anytime with preschoolers knows what a precious age this is to nurture and create a foundation of faith. Never again does innocence and truth reconcile so completely as it does during these years. A child believes and accepts Jesus as the truth and the way because we tell...

At last – someone finally showed me the lid to the puzzle box with the picture! The picture is of God’s family here on earth, choosing to serve each other with the spiritual gifts, heart (passion), abilities, personality and experiences that God has given us. Each one of us has a...

So, I walk into church this morning, knowing that I still have to wait another week to find out about the blue puzzle piece I received last week. However, I pass a couple of staff members and they are all in blue t-shirts with the question, “Are You the Missing Piece?” The bulletin...

I walked into the service yesterday morning, minding my own business, ready to get lost in the music and the message. It had been a long week and I was ready to sit back and soak it all in. As I opened my bulletin, a puzzle piece fell into my lap. Strange – it was some shade of blue...